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A HIV positive man has been sentenced to 18 years jail for trying to infect his male partners with the virus.

A man who slashed his colleague on the cheek with a penknife after being confronted for spreading a rumour about the victim being gay has been jailed for eight months by a Singapore court.

Following an uproar about anti-gay pastor Rick Warren being invited to give the invocation at the US President-elect's inauguration, Bishop Gene Robinson, the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church, has been selected to lead prayers at an event two days earlier.

A government proposal to include same sex cohabitants to be covered under the Domestic Violence Law has attracted fierce opposition from Christian legislators, Hong Kong's Catholic Church and Christian organisations.

As openly gay Justice Michael Kirby of Australia is set to retire in February, Judge Edwin Cameron, an openly gay and HIV-positive Appeal Court judge has been elevated to the Constitutional Court bench.

One man was killed and 36 others injured as a massive blaze swept through a shopping and residential complex in Bangkok's Chinatown district on Sunday night, just days after a fire at a nightclub in the Thai capital claimed dozens.

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A Hong Kong actor's homophobic remarks on radio, a Singapore TV station being fined S$15,000 for showing a ''normal'' gay family, an interview with a HIV+ spokesman in Taiwan are just a few stories that got you talking.

Although it does not support a United Nations declaration recognising ''sexual orientation'' and ''gender identity,'' the Vatican says no country should criminalise homosexuality.

Rick Warren, the prominent pastor of California's largest evangelical Christian megachurch, chided religious conservatives for harping on gay marriage instead of divorce.